Hieroclis philosophi Alexandrini Commentarius in Aurea carmina, De providentia & fato quae supersunt, et reliqua fragmenta. Graece & Latine. Graeca cum MSS. collata castigavit, versionem recensuit, notas & indicem adjecit Pet. Needham, S. T. B. Coll. D. Joannis Cantab. Socius.
Hierocles, of Alexandria (fl.430 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1709
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3028812
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32], XLII, 467, [21] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5025. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "Nath: Symonds Coll. Gonv & Cai." [i.e. Nathaniel Symonds (d. 1727), of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Son of Nathaniel, mercer, of Yarmouth. Adm. sizar (age 15) at Caius, Apr. 20, 1709. Matric. 1709; Scholar, 1709-15; B.A. 1712-3; M.A. 1717; Fellow, 1715-9. Ord. deacon (Norwich) July 12; priest, July 13, 1718. Vicar of Ormesby, Norfolk, 1718-27 -- cf. Alumni Cantabrigienses]. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double blind fillet border; blind roll pattern panel with cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; blind fillets and gilt title on brown goatskin label on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Hierocles, of Alexandria (fl.430 AD) Pythagoras (c.570 – c. 495 BC), author Joannes Curterius (fl.1580), editor Théodore Marcile (1548-1617), editor Peter Needham (1680-1731), editor John Pearson (1613-1686) Bishop of Chester, author Simon Gribelin (Blois 1661 - London 1733), engraver (printmaker)